I have noticed lately that the "Are you still there" message has gone away. While it is nice when you are awake, it sucks when you fall asleep and wake up on season 6 of something when last you knew you were on season 2. Then you have to figure out exactly what episode you fell asleep on, not impossible but can be a pain.

You can turn off "play next episode" in the web page based interface. Or, you could. I turned it off a while ago, and that change still works for me.

I turned off the auto-episode advance just for this reason. When I'm awake it's a perfect feature but when I'm asleep it's a total misfeature.

You can turn off auto play of the next episode. It both saves your sanity and avoids that problem.

Hate that option. I tend to work from home and leave my TV with something on. Picking up my remote every few hours is a waste. I don’t see why it’s so hard to let users turn it off.

I think your arm could deal with the pain every few hours.

Netflix carries a decent selection of kid's entertainment, where having a 10-minute show followed by the next episode automatically is useful.

On the Apple TV app, at least, the "Are you still watching" message is still there.

I don’t find this useful. I really just want for my kids to watch one episode and then we can decide if we want to do something else.

I also find it infuriating that when we watch a kids film, your immediately shown a preview for another film during the credits.

I get it, but I wish there was an option to turn them off.

What's going to happen when Originals directors realise and make the first 10 minutes much more compelling than the rest, by making it unrepresentative of what the show actually is? Hmm, I might already have experienced that...